2 Kings 19:34 “I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake o…”

2 Kings 19:34

I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

World English Bible

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”

American Standard Version

For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I will defende this citie to saue it for mine owne sake, and for Dauid my seruants sake.

Darby Translation

And I will defend this city, to save it, For mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'

Bible in Basic English

For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

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Cross references

“I will defend”

2 Kings 20:6 Isaiah 31:5 Isaiah 38:6 Psalm 48:2–8 Psalm 46:5 Psalm 46:6

2 Kings 20:6 · BSB

I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Isaiah 31:5 · BSB

Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

Isaiah 38:6 · BSB

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

Psalm 48:2–8 · BSB

Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

Psalm 46:5 · BSB

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 46:6 · BSB

Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

“for mine”

Deuteronomy 32:27 Isaiah 43:25 Isaiah 48:11 Ephesians 1:6 Isaiah 48:9 Ezekiel 36:22

Deuteronomy 32:27 · BSB

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

Isaiah 43:25 · BSB

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Isaiah 48:11 · BSB

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

Ephesians 1:6 · BSB

to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

Isaiah 48:9 · BSB

For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

Ezekiel 36:22 · BSB

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

“my servant”

1 Kings 15:4 Jeremiah 33:26 Jeremiah 33:21 Isaiah 9:7 1 Kings 11:12 1 Kings 11:13

1 Kings 15:4 · BSB

Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

Jeremiah 33:26 · BSB

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will…

Jeremiah 33:21 · BSB

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

Isaiah 9:7 · BSB

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The…

1 Kings 11:12 · BSB

Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

1 Kings 11:13 · BSB

Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.

35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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